FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1993
GOVERNOR:
WILL
WHAT ONCE AGAIN,
TO
THE
BEFORE
TWO POINTS. FIRST OF ALL, IT WOULD BE WRONG OF ME MAKE ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT PROGRESS OR LACK OF PROGRESS IN THE TENTH, ELEVENTH, THE TWELFTH AND ANY OTHER ROUNDS THAT MAY TAKE PLACE MY LEGCO SPEECH JUST AS IT WOULD BE WRONG OF ME TO MAKE ASSUMPTIONS
WHAT ABOUT
BETWEEN MAY OR MAY NOT BE AGREED AT THE MEETING
FOREIGN THE WHICH I HOPE WILL TAKE PLACE ABOUT THE TIME OF MINISTERS
UNITED
GENERAL NATIONS
ASSEMBLY THIS AUTUMN. SO I CAN'T MAKE THOSE ASSUMPTIONS. SECONDLY, WHEN I DO SPEAK TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL I
HAVE ΤΟ SET OUT FOR THE
IN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
MORE THAN TELEGRAMATIC FORM WHERE WE NOW STAND IN THE DEBATE ON THE ELECTORAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR 1994/1995, THAT IS NOT TO STATE A DEADLINE, IT IS TO EVERYBODY I THINK RECOGNISES AS MY THAT I THINK THE COMMUNITY HAS ALWAYS TAKEN THE VIEW LEAN OVER BACKWARDS TO TRY TO GET A FAIR AND ACCEPTABLE
SO I SETTLEMENT.
WHY THINK THE COMMUNITY WILL RECOGNISE
WE HAVE PATIENTLY SPENT EIGHT MONTHS TRYING TO ARRIVE AT AN
I AGREEMENT. THINK THE COMMUNITY WANTS US TO LEAN OVER BACKWARDS. I DON'T THINK IT
то WANTS
I DON'T THINK IT WANTS US US TO FALL OVER BACKWARDS. ANYTHING. FOR
IS THINK IT WANTS AN AGREEMENT WHICH
DECENT
AND IF SENSIBLE
AND DESPITE MONTHS AND MONTHS AND HOURS TALKS, IF DESPITE ALL THOSE MILES OF AIRLINE TRAVEL WHICH THE OF OUR
DESPITE TEAM HAVE CLOCKED UP IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS, IF ᎢᎻᎪᎢ .
DESPITE THE BEST EFFORTS OF SIR ROBIN MCLAREN AND HIS TEAM, HAVEN'T GOT AN AGREEMENT, THEN WE SHALL
ΤΟ HAVE RESPONSIBILITIES AS I DESCRIBED EARLIER.
RESPONSIBILITY.
STATE,
WE
SHOULD
I
FALL
AND HOURS OF MEMBERS
ALL
WE OUR
TAKE
QUESTION:
HOW GOOD IS YOUR HOLIDAY? OF... THE SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
DO WHAT
YOU THINK
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MR MURDOCH ?
GOVERNOR: TOUCH SECRETARY
KEPT
IN CHIEF
I HAD AN EXTREMELY ENJOYABLE HOLIDAY. I WAS WITH DEVELOPMENTS IN HONG KONG ON A REGULAR BASIS BY THE
BY TELEPHONE. I WAS ABLE TO HAVE A MEETING IN ITALY WITH FOREIGN SECRETARY SINCE WE WERE BOTH HOLIDAYING IN THE
THAT COUNTRY AND 1 HAD A USEFUL DISCUSSION WITH HIM. IT WAS A GOOD HOLIDAY.
I'M
I'VE COME BACK, AS I HOPE YOU SEE, REFRESHED AND
SOUTH
OF
MUCH
NEW
JUDGE,
ANY
ENTHUSIASTIC NOT LEAST ENTHUSIASTIC TO CONTINUE TO READ IN THE CHINA
STANDARDS MORNING POST AND IN WAH KIU YAT PO THE SAME HIGH
I AM JOURNALISM,
SURE WRITTEN AS INDEPENDENTLY
AS AND WITH INTEGRITY AS EVER. AND IF THAT HASN'T DONE ME ANY GOOD WITH THE MANAGEMENT
NOT
IS SURE WHAT WILL HAVE DONE, IF THERE
ANY NEW I'VE SEEN THE REPORTS TODAY AND, SO FAR AS I CAN MANAGEMENT. THIS IS PURELY A COMMERCIAL MATTER AND DOESN'T IN ANY WAY BREACH OF OUR LAWS. SO IT'S NOT REALLY A MATTER INTO WHICH I THINK I GET INVOLVED, BUT I REPEAT THAT I AM SURE THAT WHOEVER OWNS THESE DISTINGUISHED NEWSPAPERS, THOSE WHO RUN THEM AND THOSE WHO WRITE WILL CONTINUE TO SHOW THOSE SAME HIGH STANDARDS OF JOURNALISTIC INDEPENDENCE WHICH ARE THE CRUCIAL PART OF FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IN
HAPPEN FREE SOCIETY. THAT'S MEANT VERY SERIOUSLY AND IF THAT DOESN'T THEN HONG KONG WOULD BE ALL THE POORER.
SHOULD
TWO
THEM
A
THE JOINT OF
VALUES THE
WHICH ARE EXPLICITLY STATED IN DECLARATION, THE VALUES WHICH HAVE CREATED ALL THIS, ARE THE SORT VALUES WHICH INCREASING NUMBERS OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO TURN TO OVER THE NEXT DECADES. HONG KONG AND WHAT HONG KONG STANDS FOR IS A VISION INCLUDES OF THE FUTURE, NOT A BLAST FROM THE PAST AND THAT VERY MUCH FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
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